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If you don't know if it created /root/VoIPpackets, how do you know your cron script didn't work?

No luck again. The cron did not start at the time it was set too.

No it did not create /root/VoIPpackets

I know that the script didnt run because it should have generated a number a files. Those files were not created.

I have tested the command and it does work the way I want it to.
I have just run the script from the command line, it worked but i did need to put

Code:

bash voippackets

Im not sure if its is the script that i wrote that isnt working, because of lack of proper syntax.
or
If my crontab isn't set properly.

[icode]ls -l /root/scriptfile.sh please

If that works, it's definitely not named voippackets.sh Your crontab can't find it if you don't give it the actual name.

Also, if you need to run bash externally for it, it obviously isn't going to work in cron either, and likely isn't actually set executable.

Code:

chmod 755 /root/voippackets

Code:

ls -l /root/voippackets.sh

OutPut:

Code:

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          238 Apr 15 16:15 /root/voippackets.sh

Sorry i miss typed on the earlier post

I ran the script as

Code:

bash voippackets.sh

BTW
my crontab reads

Code:

0 8 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /root/voippackets.sh

thanks for taking so much time to help me.

you could put 'bash /root/voippackets.sh' in your crontab I suppose...

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to prove your cron is doing anything , at all, ever, without having to wait a whole week to tell, do this:

Code:

* * * * * touch /root/cronworks

Thanks for your help,

I can in today, I didnt come into the office on tuesday, I found that the changes that I made to the cron and the script on monday have made it work,
YAY!

Thank you so much for your help.

Im thinking it was this that I needed

Code:

. /etc/profile

Thank you so much!!!

No problem. that's probably the most common cron problem.